After Amit Singhal, Goldman Sachs APAC Chairman Mark Schwartz joins Paytm’s Board

After Google’s Amit Singhal, latest to join Paytm’s board is Mark Schwartz, who is vice-chairman of the Goldman Sachs Group and chairman of Goldman Sachs in Asia-Pacific.

Mark brings immense amount of experience with him as he played a major role in helping Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai with Alibaba’s $25 billion IPO in New York in 2014.

Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma said, “He has played a critical role in building leading businesses in the Asia Pacific region and across the world. I am confident Mark’s insights would offer excellent leadership for Paytm as we work towards bringing half a billion Indians to the mainstream economy.”

“India is one of the most dynamic and interesting economies in the world and I’m incredibly excited about working with Vijay and his team,” said Mark.

Mark has over 27 years of experience in Goldman Sachs. He joined the firm’s Investment Banking department in 1979. After relocating to Tokyo as the President of the Japan unit in 1997, he became the Chairman of Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific in 1999. He retired from the firm in 2001 but later rejoined as the Asia Pacific Chairman in 2012.

Last week, Amit Singhal, the former Head of Search at Google Inc., joined Paytm’s board of directors.

Amit has been instrumental in shaping Google Search to seamlessly work across desktop, mobile and other devices. A Google Fellow, and former head of the core ranking team, he served for over fifteen years in the company.